Julian Edelman says only time Bill Belichick's happy is after a Super Bowl win

Julian Edelman definitely loves being a New England Patriot. If they didn’t already have a mascot, he’d be the perfect candidate. Still, he’s not going to try to sell you a bill of goods about how great the vibe is during the regular season.

“Nah. It’s not a happy-go-lucky environment there. Not by any means,” said Edelman. “I have fun outside the game. But right now, if you’re in this part of the season, I mean this is when it’s nut-cuttin’ time and this is when the real season starts. It’s not fun. It’s business. That’s how Belichick is 24/7, 352 days or whatever…Yeah, 365, Oh my lord. Maybe we he jokes around after a Super Bowl win. That’s the only time I’ve really seen him smile… He smiles here and there, but that’s the real time I’ve actually seen he’s actually happy.”

That’s hardly shocking. When Belichick allowed himself to celebrate their most recent Super Bowl win for more than a month, people were genuinely surprised. After all, we are talking about the man that tried to start a “No Days Off!” chant at the parade in Boston just two days after they won.

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Crushing the souls of the Atlanta Falcons and Roger Goodell at the same time did seem to perk him up a bit more than usual though. After their extraordinary win in Super Bowl LI in which they overcame a 28-3 third-quarter deficit, Belichick made the rarest of rare live TV appearances when he joined Edelman on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

He’s so obviously a guy who’s not used to being happy, he doesn’t even know how to handle it – and it’s clear Edelman doesn’t either. And while it may be incredibly unsettling most of the time, there’s no arguing that Belichick’s rule that he’ll only smile around his players in the weeks immediately after they’ve won a Super Bowl seems to really be working for him.